I received the books a few days ago and was horrified
when I opened the big box. It contained the medical books of
an Anna Fedulova (from Barnaul in Siberia) who had studied
in Lausanne and Geneva from 1893 to 1899. How absurd
and disgraceful! I know nothing about this person and
hear her name for the first time. How could her books have
got here? How could they have been sent to Moscow to the
wrong address? Why did nobody enquire about them during
the months they were lying in Moscow?

Try to find out, if you can, what it is all about. For all
the books I paid about 40 (forty!) rubles. So for someone
else’s books I must have overpaid about thirty rubles on
account of the neglect of some utterly irresponsible persons.

I shall write to Siberia and to Switzerland, asking them
to try and find the lady. In the meantime I have put the
books into a warehouse. I must get in touch with the
carrier’s office that sent the box. Let me have their exact
address. Perhaps the owner of the books will soon be asking
for them. Did they issue a receipt for the books? If so, how
could they have surrendered them (here) without it? Try
and go to them to get an explanation, or—better—write
to them, register the letter and send a stamp for a reply.

(I think the owner of the books should refund my expenses
since she is at fault for sending the books to a strange
address without any notification.)

I have received a letter from Lirochka, who sends you
and Mother thousands of the warmest greetings. I do not
suppose I shall have an opportunity to see her.